| Intro | Canadian historian |
| Is |
Writer Historian Poet Playwright |
| From | Canada |
| Type |
Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature Social science |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | Hamilton |
Mabel Grace Burkholder (1881–1973) was a Canadian writer and historian.
Biography
Burkholder was born in 1881 to a family of German settlers. She taught for a short time after obtaining a teaching certificate before turning to writing. She published poetry, short stories, poems and books about the history of Hamilton, Ontario from 1911 to 1968. Burkholder had a regular local history column in The Hamilton Spectator and was a member of the city’s branch of Canadian Women’s Press Club. In 1938, Burkholder was named Hamilton’s first Citizen of the Year.